Portraits were painted in several Rajput courts of Rajasthan. Consider the following statements:
(A) By the early nineteenth century, Jaipur painting made lavish use of gold.
(B) The equestrian portrait of Aniruddha Singh was painted by the artist Ruknuddin.
(C) Jaipur painters produced life-size portraits.
(D) In the equestrian portrait of Aniruddha Singh, the artist shows speed by painting the foreground in fine detail.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (A) and (C) only
(A) By the early nineteenth century, Jaipur painting made lavish use of gold. — Correct. A lavish use of gold marks Jaipur painting by the early nineteenth century.
(B) The equestrian portrait of Aniruddha Singh was painted by the artist Ruknuddin. — Incorrect. The portrait is by Tulchi Ram. Ruknuddin was the master artist of Anup Singh’s atelier at Bikaner.
(C) Jaipur painters produced life-size portraits. — Correct. Jaipur preferred large size formats and produced life-size portraits.
(D) In the equestrian portrait of Aniruddha Singh, the artist shows speed by painting the foreground in fine detail. — Incorrect. The artist shows speed by completely negating the foreground. The horse gallops so high that the ground is not visible.
NCERT (2026-27): “Jaipur School of Painting …By the early nineteenth century, there was a lavish use of gold. Jaipur preferred large size formats and produced life-size portraits.” “Raja Aniruddha Singh Hara Aniruddha Singh (1682–1702) succeeded Bhao Singh. Few remarkable paintings with interesting documentary evidence have survived from his period. One of them being the much talked of equestrian portrait of Aniruddha Singh by artist Tulchi Ram painted in 1680. It epitomises an artist’s perception of speed and a horse in motion that he accomplished by completely negating the rendering of the foreground.” |